Today your assignments on science writing are due via box
Latecomers can have until midnight
We will also look at the process by which a scientific lab becomes science news. Here's how a paper on monkeys became a UW-Madison news release. From there, it was picked up by a variety of news outlets, ranging from a newspaper, the Guardian, a science web site, Wired Science, and a general science magazine, Science News.
Let's look at the New York Times Science section and see if we can figure out where the stories originated.
This story on bar-headed geese originated as a paper in the journal Science. And this piece on random causes of cancer was originally a paper in Science, but this is more of a "second look" article that tries to explain some of the backlash.
